ImagePresident Trump at a news conference on Friday announcing the new policy on drug prices.Credit…Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Health officials on Friday finalized a policy that would base the price Medicare pays for certain drugs on the lowest price paid in some other developed nations. It is the most ambitious of […]
Trump Campaign Lawyers Step Up but Are Swiftly Knocked Down
In a chaotic effort to overturn the election results, President Trump and lawyers representing his campaign have spent weeks claiming without convincing proof that rampant voter fraud corrupted vote tallies in many battleground states. But their lawsuits challenging the outcome have repeatedly broken down because of defective filings, sloppy paperwork, […]
Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine
WASHINGTON — The call was tense, the message discouraging. Moncef Slaoui, the head of the Trump administration’s effort to quickly produce a vaccine for the coronavirus, was on the phone at 6 p.m. on Aug. 25 to tell the upstart biotech firm Moderna that it had to slow the final […]
Trump Using Last Days to Lock In Policies and Make Biden’s Task More Difficult
WASHINGTON — Voters have decided that President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. should guide the country through the next four years. But on issues of war, the environment, criminal justice, trade, the economy and more, President Trump and top administration officials are doing what they can to make changing direction more […]
Duty or Party? For Republicans, a Choice on Whether to Enable Trump
For the next three weeks, the integrity of American democracy is in the hands of people like Norman D. Shinkle, a proud Michigander who has, until recently, served in relative obscurity on the state board that certifies vote results. But now Mr. Shinkle faces a choice born from the national […]
Trump Using Last Days to Lock in Policies and Make Biden’s Task More Difficult
WASHINGTON — Voters have decided that President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. should guide the country through the next four years. But on issues of war, the environment, criminal justice, trade, the economy and more, President Trump and top administration officials are doing what they can to make changing direction more […]
Robert De Niro Tells ‘The View’ It’s ‘Nuts’ That Giuliani Once Prosecuted The Mob And Now Represents Trump’s ‘Mob Family’
While appearing on ABC’s “The View” on Friday, Hollywood star Robert De Niro had yet another meltdown against President Donald Trump, this time describing his family as a “mob family.” “I wanted to ask you about Giuliani because Rudy Giuliani is still trying to fight the results in court with […]
Trump’s Legal Team Sets a Precedent for Lowering the Bar
WASHINGTON — President Trump, who said there would be so much winning in his White House that Americans would grow tired of it, is of a different mind-set these days. He is not, apparently, tired of losing. Which is what he and his allies keep doing in their desperate efforts […]
DNC Official Suggests Re-Education For Trump Voters – ‘How Do You Deprogram 75 Million People?’
David Atkins, an official who was just elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, took to social media this week to say that Democrats need to “start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan” in order to “deprogram 75 million people.” DNC Official Wants To Send […]